Man, I have a 3DS, but Monster Hunter 4 should have been for Vita... Seriously, the game could have looked and I'm sure played much better with two analogs. Not to mention MH on PSP was the go-to thing for people especially in Japan. A lot of those people probably got a Vita in hopes of the next one on there.

Oh well though, not like I'd give Crapcom any of my money for ANY game anyway. Just putting in my two cents, which is my opinion of course. Nothing less, nothing more.

I owned my 3ds first and until the new Pokemon have regretted every second of it. Only a hand full of games I actually enjoy, no features outside of games which make the 3ds a valid purchase, the Nintendo store is a hot mess, the 3d feature makes my head hurt. I love that I have an r4i that works on it but if the 3ds isn't cracked soon ill never own a 3ds game outside of Zelda which came with the special edition. I think capcom is shooting themselves in the foot with this deal.

MH can go to hell. I dont give a flying F about this game anymore! Trying to kill the machine that BROUGHT them where they are now! What pricks. I hope they get served with bad sales! Soul Sacrifice all the way!

Good riddance!!, when GTA was exclusive to the ps2 for a couple of years I doubt anyone was complaining like little b*tches, glad this series is exclusive on the 3DS and WiiU, glad the handheld I love is getting amazing support :)

Now in two months time I'll be getting a WiiU for the sole reason to play Monster Hunter in HD

I know that's your opinion but it's wrong 3ds isn't that great of a system it's only relevant because of pokemon, and Zelda. Not going to lie the Mario games been shit. The wii u yea it's good but you will stop playing it a month in. Monster hunter isn't really good game either.... Again all is my opinion. I had 3ds for 3 months regretted it then sold it instantly, have the vita a much better handheld system that when it has games coming to it just puts your 3ds in its place 6ft under the ground...

"Man, I have a 3DS, but Monster Hunter 4 should have been for Vita... Seriously, the game could have looked and I'm sure played much better with two analogs."

This why not everyone can be made CEO of a company - MH Vita with better graphics would mean that the developers would have to spend more money than what they did with the 3DS MH.

Now tell me how this makes any sense business wise to spend more money on a game that does not even half the install base that the 3DS has?

Consumers do not look at the spending cost part of making a game and only look at the receiving end which is just make the dam game and do not worry if it bombs or sells...this is why Sony is in the red right now because the make game like iNfamous, Heavy Rain, Twisted Metal, Battle Royal, Killzone and Resistance which are great games but do not sell enough to break even or make a profit.

3DS is outselling the PSV something like 20:1 in Japan. Last gen the PSP had a good initial uptake in Japan off the back off the PS2. The PS2 was popular so some of that translated to PSP sales.

Unfortunately the PS3 isn't quite the hit the PS2 was and Sony no longer hold the exclusivity of intellectual property that they once did. There's far less reason for the Japanese to pick up Sony's new handheld than there was the PSP and as a result it makes sense that publishers like Capcom would want their games on the most popular system for their target demographic.

With the Vita's current install base it's really not worth developing for, to be honest. At best you're looking at 500k units sold. On the 3DS you can shift a few million. There's a big difference and I imagine that alongside the incentive from Nintendo made it an easy decision.

That's somewhat true, but the thing is. Monster Hunter is what pushed the sales of the PSP in Japan, not riding off the PS2. The PSP wasn't doing huge numbers in Japan until late in it's lifecycle, and it's still doing well which is the problem.

The PSP is cutting into the sales of the Vita. World WIde both the PSP and PSV are selling similar numbers 80k per week.. The Vita has a near even split across the world (30k, 30k, 20k), while the PSP is selling (2k, 9k, 70k), and that 70,000 is being sold in Japan alone for the PSP.

On top of that Monster Hunter is a system seller in Japan as proven by the significant boost in sales when the games came to the PSP, and when it launched on the 3DS. Capcom knows this, and they know that if the release it on Vita it's still going to sell 1+ mil copies. THey just don't want to take the chance. They'd rather have another PSP quality game and a check than improve the entire series by releasing it for Vita or even consoles.

It's like people are forgetting the last console generation. The Xbox was much more powerful than the PS2 and the GameCube was slightly so, and yet all the big games came out on the PlayStation because, like the 3DS, it had the larger install base. I never heard anyone complaining then.

If it was exclusive to the 3DS, why would it come to the Wii U? Unless he means, it's exclusive to Nintendo for 3 years. So, would 4 be the last game to be exclusive to the 3DS or does it start with 4?

Were nintendo worried about the 3DS or did they just want to create a monopoly?

i find it strange that both Square Enix and Capcom steered completely away from the Vita in terms of original content even before it had launched, when they supported the psp quite strongly. I would have thought games like Kingdom hearts and RE:Revelations would have always had the intention of going multiplatform. Especially with the VIta's added power and dual analoge sticks. Financially both companies could have sold an additional 400k for each respective game. Probably even more judging 3rd party numbers for Persona 4, Rayman Origins. Hell even ragnarok sold 200k and it isn't even out in europe yet (same for persona).

I don't get it either. It makes no sense from a business standpoint or a developer standpoint.

My guess is the Vita sales aren't doing so great, but even then you would expect a PSP version since the 3DS is basically a PSP+ and the PSP is still doing big numbers in Japan (although weaker than the PSP in a few places).

Which leads me to believe this was Nintendo's way of trying to stop the Vita and mobile devices from breaking more ground into their handheld marketing that the PSP already claimed. The DS outsold the PSP by a large margin, 150+ mil to 70+ mil. But the DS is now selling less than 3,000 handhelds a week, while the PSP is still pushing 100,000 per week. No one has ever gave Nintendo this much trouble in the handheld industry, EVER. On top of that developers are starting to take mobile games more seriously.

So what do you do? Kill the competition. All that Wii money is being funded into the 3DS and Wii-U in an attempt to get major franchises and core games on their handheld and console to prevent mobile and Vita from hurting 3DS sales, and to keep 3rd party support for the Wii-U when the PS4 and Xbox 1080 launch.

It's a great move for Nintendo, but it sucks for people who want to see advances in technology and their games.

I could only think nintendo money hatted tons of exclusivity... I remember capcom initially showed demos of monster hunter on Vita as well as lost planet, they even said that the MT framework (engine behind RE:Revelations) was in process of being adapted to the Vita.

It makes alot of sense from a business stand point nintendo pay you to make a game and you release a game that has cost you next to nothing to make and you reel in the profits on a console that has sold 9 times as many unit. As for the vita games will be quite large as it will be nearly as costly as a ps3 game so why wouldn't you make ps3 game instead with a big user base. Also alot of people already beleved the handheld market has been cornered by tablets and phones

That's not true. Vita game development cost are slightly higher than the PSP which is in the same ball park as the 3DS.

That being said I know it's all based on money, and Nintendo probably wrote a check to Capcom, and Capcom is all about the money nowadays.

The PSP released in December of 2004 in Japan, and early 2005 WW, only selling 10 million handhelds by year's end. But Capcom still put the first Monster Hunter on PSP and it's sold as much as the 3DS version with the 3DS having a larger install base 14 million.

On top of that they've managed to release a entire 5 part series of Monster Hunter for the Xbox 360 in Japan........ Yeah it sold like crap.

I don't know about Capcom anymore. They don't care about the games and quality, they only care about sales, and when you don't care about both that's when you've lost me.

There is a difference between first party (Second) and third party exclusives. You also have to remember Nintendo has a good share of first party exclusives as well.

I still stick by what I said, I thought Nintendo doesn't pay for exclusives. Now we are hearing they have a 3 year exclusive plan for MH and I don't see where Capcom could use Mario in one of their games (So money was a factor in this).

If Nintendo is doing Marketing for a Capcom game, then that means money was exchanged but not directly from on to the other. Nintendo is still coming out of pocket to have the game on their platform exclusively.

If they sent some of their employees to help capcom make a game on the 3DS, more is being exchanged for time spent at another studio. Again Nintendo is paying to have their employees work on a non first party game.

Capcom's loss. After all, how much money would they stand to make from putting one on the Vita? And talk about being a system seller: even if it were available on both handhelds, I get the feeling it'd be about equally as popular on the Vita.

If Persona 4, a 3 year old port of mildly popular franchise can sell 250k in japan on the vita, monster hunter can push 500k in its 1st month easy. In the long run it would probably be at around 1.2m by years end, which will likely be around 30% of the 3DS version sales.

Nobody listen's to the guy.. He said don't believe what you hear on the net but that's EXACTLY what this article and the other articles are doing. (And apperantly anyone else believing these rumors) true or false these are all rumors the game may still or may not come to the vita ... Ill believe when it's official.

Honestly Monster hunter would be better on the vita. I have Monster Hunter portable 3rd HD for the ps3 and that right analog stick camera control made the games 100 times better to play. The main issue with monster hunter on psp and ps2 was the camera controls were mapped to the d-pad making it awkward to control the camera while trying to keep your character moving. That made the game harder than it really should be especially when fighting multiple monsters at the same time. If the 3ds had a second analog stick then it would be fine but it doesnt. After playing monster hunter with good camera control its hard to good back to playing with out it.

Vita will get its own MH game eventually im sure.. Possibly a PS4 MH game w vita crossplay or functionality.. If not, soul sacrifice will be there for me.. & i also have a 3ds xl so if (mind u IF) mh 4 gets localized, ill be purchasing it.. If it ends up a great work of art of corse..

Oh & God Eater 2, Phantasy Star online 2, Dragons crown, & many others are coming so MH4 not going on it is not biggie to me.. Vita having Cross play, cross control, cross game chat, trophies, etc makes it a much greater experience to play games on it rather than 3ds IMO... I still love & respect Nintendos software quality, but i really dont care for their hardware & publisher support

lol the vita is doomed without this game nobody will even care about the system in a few years.

"I don't understand to be honest, I mean I understand from a business point since the 3DS is outselling the PSV but with the PSV they could do more with the franchise"

and what can they do with the franchise? they cant do anything that has been done already, and they can barley sell a million systems......u really think they would waste time/money making a game for a useless handheld?